The thousand-strong cannibal cult 'that ate raw brains and made penis soup out of their sex-crazed witchdoctor victims'

Deep successful the distant jungles of Papua New Guinea mysterious beliefs successful sorcery, spirits and witchcraft proceed to exist.

Such areas person remained mostly untouched by modern civilisation, and frankincense person been sheltered from extracurricular influences.

As a result, their ways and traditions tin day backmost thousands of years with utmost savagery not uncommon successful the country's distant expanses. 

In 1 assemblage successful the country's Madang region, a radical formed to tackle witchdoctors suspected of demanding enactment and wealth from mediocre villagers successful instrumentality for their supernatural powers.     

But what started retired with 'good intentions', rapidly deteriorated into thing acold much sinister. 

The 1000-strong cannibal cult are believed to person killed astatine slightest 7 radical and eaten the earthy brains of their victims, adjacent making crockery from their penises. 

And it was each done nether the twisted content that by consuming the assemblage parts they would attain the witchdoctors' supernatural powers and go bulletproof. 

The horrors came to airy erstwhile 29 members of the cult, including a 13-year-old lad and 8 women, were arrested successful the distant colony of Biamb successful July 2012.

They were accused of sidesplitting 7 people, 4 of them successful the past week, but nary remains had been found. 

'They're astir apt each eaten up,' Madang Police Commander Anthony Wagambie said astatine the time. 

He said the radical each 'admitted openly' what they had done and didn't deliberation they had done thing wrong. 

Mr Wagambie said that the killers believed that the victims were practicing sorcerers and that they had been overcharging mediocre villagers arsenic good arsenic demanding intersexual favours successful instrumentality for their services.

Sorcery and witchcraft is wide believed successful the South Pacific federation and galore radical question alternate explanations to misfortune, illness, accidents oregon death.

The state adjacent brought successful a Sorcery Act to support against attacks connected those accused of practising achromatic magic.

However, a section governmental activistic told The Sydney Morning Herald astatine the clip that sorcery was 'getting of hand' successful the villages.

They said: 'It utilized to beryllium a bully thing, but present it's turned into a benignant of cult.

'They killed [the archetypal victim] connected the roadside. They chopped retired his heart, they chopped retired his brains they drank his blood.'

While execution is punishable by decease successful Papua New Guinea, determination look to beryllium nary records of what happened to the suspected cannibals. 

It comes arsenic determination are inactive immoderate tribes surviving successful distant parts of the satellite that are believed to inactive beryllium practising cannibalism. 

The Asmat people are an taste radical surviving successful New Guinea, occupying 10,000 quadrate miles of jungle swap successful Indonesia's state of South Papua.

They were archetypal encountered by Europeans erstwhile the Dutch came crossed them successful 1623 - nevertheless they remained astir wholly isolated from different taste groups until the 1950s, erstwhile they came into much regular interaction with outsiders.

Until then, it was good known that the people - often implicit with look paint, headdresses and spears - were feared headhunters and cannibals.

As a result, they were near good capable unsocial for galore years.

While the Asmat tribes were ferocious headhunters, they person besides made stunning woody sculptures (rubbed with the humor of those they killed) arsenic good arsenic hauntingly beauteous decorated skulls.

These they collected from tribal foes, having eaten their brains successful a ineffable ritual they believed would springiness them the dormant men's power.

Their bloodthirsty mode of beingness revolved astir endless revenge attacks against neighbouring villages. Each clip a people subordinate was killed, helium had to beryllium avenged by taking the skull of an force - whether man, pistillate oregon child.

The skulls of their victims are believed to beryllium utilized successful cooking.

Like the Asmat, the Korowai besides hail from Indonesia's Papua - from southeastern Papua successful the Indonesian provinces of South Papua and Highland Papua.

They fig astir 4,000 to 4,400 radical and - according to the Daily Telegraph - were unaware of the beingness of radical different than themselves until the precocious 1970s.

The bulk of the Korowai people members unrecorded successful treehouses successful their isolated wood territory, but immoderate person moved into villages since the 1980s.

Ever since they were discovered, the people person been rumoured to beryllium cannibals who unrecorded successful treetop houses.

Members of the people contiguous inactive promote specified stories erstwhile asked by Western visitors, but portion they surely erstwhile lived among the branches, determination is constricted grounds to enactment claims they ate quality flesh.

Their archetypal documented interaction with the extracurricular satellite was erstwhile a radical of scientists met with members of 1 clan successful 1974.

An Australian newsman aboriginal claimed the people practised cannibalism but this has been disputed by some.

And portion the Korowai antecedently lived successful communal histrion houses precocious up successful the jungle canopy, the clans person progressively moved into settled villages.